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Dear guys, Iīm new here. I had the same problem last night. PC got frozen, I restarted with the button, and appeared in the window with the options to either go to startup repair or to start windows normally. Either one I chose it gets to the same screen.

I tried the STARTUP REPAIR first,
the first time, it didnīt find any operating system, anyway it ran, but said the problems couldnībe fixed. So I restarted
second time, found the operating system, ran startup repair, checked for half an hour and appeared a sign saying "repairing disk errors, this might take over an hour to complete" and kept like that for eight hours, until I read in this thread that it shouldnīt take so long, so I restarted.
third time, found operating system, running now again startup repair, half an hour to get to the sign about the disk again, now Iīm planning to wait no more than 1 hour to make the next step.

What I would like to know your advice about is
1. should I try how many times to do START UP REPAIR?
2. in case I should take a different solution, which is first, system recovery or repair install?

thanks for your advice, I use the pc to work and need to solve this asap.

Sometimes, depending on how bad it is, you may need to run Startup Repair up to 3 times, it should never take more than that though.

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In case I should take a different solution, which is first, system recovery or repair install?

Unfortunately, a repair install (I believe) can only be done from within a booting copy of Windows, In which case your only option would be a Custom Install, or recover a system image. Brink or someone else may have a better solution for you, but I'm fairly certain that if Startup Repair is failing, there is probably something seriously wrong with your installation.

You might see if doing a system restore at boot (if able) using a restore point dated before you had this issue may help.

If not, then Martin's post above is a good suggestion. If running startup repair up to 3 times cannot fix it, then it may be best to do a custom install if you have files you need to save, or a clean install if you do not.

thanks Brink, as many others here, Iīve done nothing special before the brakedown

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

You might see if doing a system restore at boot (if able) using a restore point dated before you had this issue may help.

If not, then Martin's post above is a good suggestion. If running startup repair up to 3 times cannot fix it, then it may be best to do a custom install if you have files you need to save, or a clean install if you do not.

I tried to do a SYSTEM RESTORE using the same cd I used for STARTUP REPAIR, but when I click on SYSTEM RESTORE, it stays there, thinks for a second, but donīt go anywhere.-edit- sorry, it just took a long time until a window appeared, saying THERE IS NO POINT CREATED TO RETURN TO. so, I will try one more time to do STARTUP REPAIR, and then...

I think I will try CUSTOM INSTALL then, so that I save some files I preffer to keep. the problem I see is that I will loose programs and drivers installed, thatīs not nice

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